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01-08-2019

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How do I keep an X session alive when my VPN/ssh disconnects so I can reconnect later?

Hi,

Sorry if this question has been asked before, however, I have tried looking in the forum (and google in general) and I haven't found an answer, so I thought I'd ask here.

I am trying to use a GUI application in Solaris 10. Normally I connect with a VPN then SSH and use Xming to launch my application.
The problem is that whenever my VPN disconnects, the software closes and interrupts the things it was doing.
For command line applications I use "screen" to keep a session opened when the VPN connection fails, so there is no problem, but I haven't found anything equivalent for an X session.
I even tried forwarding the X session to "screen" (export DISPLAY=localhost:N.0 ) but either I'm doing something wrong or this doesn't work...

I know using Citrix will solve this with proper configuration, unfortunately for the time being I can't use it on this server.

is there any software equivalent to "screen" for X sessions that I can use in Solaris 10? if not, Is there any alternative way of doing this?

Thanks!

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byobu-select-session

byobu-select-session(1) 					       byobu						   byobu-select-session(1)

NAME

       byobu-select-session - select and connect to a byobu session

DESCRIPTION

       byobu-select-session  is an application that lists the available screen sessions running on the system, and prompts the user to select one.
       The user also has the option to create a new Byobu session, or launch the default shell without Byobu.

       If an invalid selection is chosen 3 times in a row, the user is connected to the youngest session.

       By default, if only one session exists, the user is connected to that session, and if no sessions exist, a new session is created  --  such
       that  there  is	no  interactive prompt in the normal behavior.	However, some users may choose to always be prompted, by touching the file
       $BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR/.always-select.

       Note that BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR=$HOME/.byobu.

       Named sessions that begin with a "." are "hidden" from byobu-select-session(1).	This is useful, for instance, if you do not want a session
       to be automatically selected at login.  Example:
	 byobu -S .hidden

FILES

       $BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR/.always-select

SEE ALSO

       byobu(1), screen(1)

       http://launchpad.net/byobu

AUTHOR

       This manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others).  Permis-
       sion is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document and the utility under the terms of the GNU General Public License,  Version
       3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

       The  complete  text  of	the  GNU  General  Public  License  can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on Debian/Ubuntu systems, or in
       /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/GPL on Fedora systems, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.

byobu								    12 Jan 2010 					   byobu-select-session(1)